Virtual prototyping (VP) technology has been regarded as a cost-effective way of envisaging real circumstances that enhance effective communication of designs and ideas, without manufacturing physical samples. In the construction field, although a large number of digital technologies have been developed to visualize the innovative architectural design, few VP systems have been developed to faci...

Although AI planning techniques can poten tially be useful in several manufacturing do mains this potential remains largely unreal ized In order to adapt AI planning techniques to manufacturing it is important to develop more realistic and robust ways to address issues important to manufacturing engineers Fur thermore by investigating such issues AI re searchers may be able to discover principl...

Thai manufacturing SMEs have played a major role in developing Thai economy, social and employment. In this situation, they have been confronted by forceful overseas competitors, especially in lowcost producers such as China, India, Vietnam, etc. They need to upgrade organisational performance in order to increasing their international competitiveness. However, most of Thai manufacturing SMEs h...

Production planning and the development of manufacturing production scheduling are two important operational management tasks. The results of these tasks will strongly influence the development of corporate profits, as well as the efficiency of utilization of resources. Considering the production scheduling problems in production plans can effectively avoid conflicts between the specific implem...

Supply chains are ubiquitous in the manufacturing of many complex products. Traditionally, supply chains have been created through the intricate interactions of human representatives of the various companies involved. However recent advances in planning, scheduling, and autonomous agent technologies have sparked an interest, both in academia and in industry, in automating the process. The Tradi...

The functional units of today’s complex business environment require more and more interfunctional data flow for decision making, timely and efficient procurement of product parts, management of inventory, accounting, human resources, and distribution of goods and services. Management of such organizations need efficient information systems to improve competitiveness by cost reduction and bette...

A manufacturing feature can be defined simply as a geometric shape and its manufacturing information to create the shape. In a feature-based process planning system, feature library that consists of pre-defined manufacturing features and the manufacturing information to create the shape of the features, plays an important role in the extraction of manufacturing features with their proper manufa...

We describe a problem solver that met non-chronological backtracking in situations involving tradeoffs. The novel aspect of the problem solver is it ability to weigh advantages and disadvantages of alternatives at choke points. Whenever untenable situations arise, this information is available to the backtracker to determine the most appropriate backtracking point. By endowing the backtracker w...

Although AI planning techniques can potentially be useful in several manufacturing domains, this potential remains largely unrealized. Many of the issues important to manufacturing engineers have not seemed interesting to AI researchers--but in order to adapt AI planning techniques to manufacturing, it is important to address these issues in a realistic and robust manner. Furthermore, by invest...

Cloud Manufacturing is a new and promising manufacturing paradigm. Resource virtualization is critical for Cloud Manufacturing. It encapsulates physical resources into cloud services and determines the robustness of the cloud platform. This paper proposes novel multi-granularity resource virtualization and sharing strategies for bridging the gap between complex manufacturing tasks and underlyin...